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brooklyn13

10/12/22 10:15 AM

#426628 RE: conix #426626

Here's how to judge management of the economy. If you don't understand what this is, ask around:

Year

Federal Deficit

Change (current yr-previous Year)

2016

$600 Billion

2017

$700 Billion

$100 Billion

2018

$800 Billion

$100 Billion

2019

$1,000 Billion

$200 Billion

2020

$3,200 Billion

$2,200 Billion

2021

$2.800 Billion

- 400 Billion

2021 (11 Mo)

$2.720 Billion

2022 (11 Mo)

$945 Billion

-1,775 Billion

p.s., this means Biden is on course to reduce the deficit by $1.7T this year. In the glory years of Your Savior, it appears to have gone up by $1T.
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blackhawks

10/12/22 10:30 AM

#426630 RE: conix #426626

You realize that there are people who still support this f'ing moron, right? And it's not about policies as much as it is about every addled notion in his head, from stop the steal to his lame claims about his STOLEN docs.

People who run with his support implicitly, explicitly in too many instances, support his bullshit.

He's fucking losing it

Fact-checker shreds Trump's newest excuse for stashing classified documents

On Monday, FactCheck.org deconstructed a particular claim from former President Donald Trump — that other presidents had stashes of government documents comparable to the one the FBI raided his home in Mar-a-Lago to seize — and revealed it to be completely false.

"Trump accused several of his presidential predecessors of storing White House documents, including ones that were classified, in unsecured warehouse spaces," wrote Robert Farley and Lori Robertson. "For example, Trump said, 'George H.W. Bush took millions and millions of documents to a former bowling alley pieced together with what was then an old and broken Chinese restaurant, they put them together. And it had a broken front door and broken windows. Other than that it was quite secure. And there was no security.'"

This prompted a tweet from Jeb Bush, who replied, “I am so confused. My dad enjoyed a good Chinese meal and enjoyed the challenge of 7-10 split. What the heck is up with you?”

The problem with Trump's claim, is that "all of the examples Trump mentioned were cases of the National Archives and Records Administration — not the former presidents themselves — storing documents in secure facilities, while permanent presidential libraries were being built."

For example, in the case of Bush, "none of the presidential records, including classified documents, were in Bush’s possession or in his personal residence," and the former bowling alley was specifically retrofitted as a storage space to securely hold classified material.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fact-checker-shreds-trump-s-newest-excuse-for-stashing-classified-documents/ar-AA12OCJC

5. Trump is not even pretending that all these documents are headed to his "library".

I anticipate a "museum of memes".

23. You mean like this one? Future site of the Trump Presidential Library




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fuagf

10/12/22 6:23 PM

#426653 RE: conix #426626

conix, Have you really missed all of the clear-cut facts around Gabbard. You and dropdeadfred must frequent similar alleyways. See

dropdeadfred, Gabbard has been a bit off-beam for many years. Putin's boys used her toward election 2020.
[...]
Tulsi Gabbard’s ties to secretive cult may explain her perplexing political journey
Tulsi Gabbard’s upbringing in an offshoot of the Hare Krishna movement with strict devotion to a secretive guru sheds light on her apparent fondness for Vladimir Putin, Bevan Hurley writes
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tulsi-gabbard-cult-putin-democrat-science-of-identity-b2058196.html
[...]
Tulsi Gabbard: Cult Politics?
Why is she Putin’s favorite Democrat?
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170173911

Here for you, let's out a bit more of that article: Excerpt:

Tulsi Gabbard has staked out extreme positions on LGBT+ rights .. https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/lgbtq-rights [YET Gabbard labels the Democrats as exclusive], spread disinformation about Ukrainian biolabs .. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/ukraine-biolabs-fox-tucker-carlson-tulsi-gabbard-b2039117.html , and claimed she was being shadowbanned by Big Tech while using her vast social media footprint to label Joe Biden a “warmonger”.

In one breath Gabbard expresses a desire to bring love and aloha from her native Hawaii to the world, in the next she is fanning conspiracy theories .. https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/conspiracy-theories .. on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show.

This week, Gabbard announced she was leaving the Democratic Party .. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tulsi-gabbard-leaves-democratic-party-b2200235.html , claiming it had become “an elitist cabal of warmongers driven by cowardly wokeness”.

[Insert: SHEESH. See [...][...]Repeat: If Dems lose the House in the midterms, it will be to a large part due to lies and misinformation.
P - Conservative lies and misinformation chiefly about the causes and the responsibilities for the present inflation in the USA.
P - Other factors would be the fear factors created around conservative culture war issues as Critical Race Theory, Woke and others ..
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=169981449 . Lies and misinformation around all of that stuff.
P - Also conspiratorial nonsense about the defense of the criminal Trump.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=170116091]


The decision came as little surprise to anyone who has followed her political trajectory from 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to darling of Russian propagandists and the American far-right.

To understand her ambitions, her aunt Dr Caroline Sinavaiana Gabbard tells The Independent in an interview that it is necessary to look to her upbringing in a secretive cult called the Science of Identity Foundation (SIF) whose members show absolute loyalty to a reclusive guru, Chris Butler.

A former member told The Independent the group’s teachings are virulently homophobic, often anti-Islamic and misogynist, and how they were forced to worship Butler, who is considered to be akin to a God.

[No wonder Gabbard is making a further drift toward another seen by so many as "The Chosen One"]

Sinavaiana Gabbard says her niece’s career is all about the pursuit of power, and her bid for the presidency in 2020 was the culmination of four decades of Butler’s efforts to seek political influence.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tulsi-gabbard-cult-putin-democrat-science-of-identity-b2058196.html

Noted there yet another example, from a totally disparate source, of exactly where the 'all or nothing pursuit of power' sentiment is drifting to.